adrianmc

Don't know if it has been highlighted in this thread before but the Hornby TT:120 Catalogue has a major typo on page 2?

First paragraph has the statement:

"Introducing Hornby TT:120, a Table Top model railway format that uses an internationally recognised scale of 1:120 or in simple terms, 1" to 1' and is a perfect scale for those of all ages who may be limited for space" 

Surely that should be 1" to 10'  i.e. 1 inch to 10 feet?

16 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Mine hasn't arrived yet (posties just been) although I joined on the 10th.  Perhaps Hornby are sending them out in alphabetical order...

 

 

I joined on the 11th.

Just received my Hornby TT:120 Club Welcome Pack.

Enclosed is a welcome letter, TT:120 badge, catalogue, lanyard & holder and membership card.

What is missing and should be there is the first issue of the Club magazine.

A phone call to Margate to query its absence led to being informed that the magazine is running late and rather than delay the Welcome Packs it will be shipped separately direct from the printers/publishing house.

All bar two layouts have arrived - show looking good.

A layout making its second exhibition outing - Cox Lumber Company in On30.

2mm/ft finescale will be represented by Drws-y-Nant, the new layout from Nigel Ashton making its debut at the show.

A picture whilst under construction.

Another layout attending the exhibition is roundhouse's new 00-9 layout Blackmoor

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/149649-blackmoor-lynton-barnstaple-railway-in-009-circa-1930-the-layouts-first-show/

Hi Rob,

Looking forward to meeting up in Portishead over the weekend.

With a bit of luck we hope to be able to replicate the following scene.

I know it's a bit later than the period being discussed but the articulated sets were only assembled in 1924.

Looking forward to seeing Old Parrock, making its debut exhibition appearance.

37th UCKFIELD MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION

Largest Uckfield Show ever - now expanded to the upstairs of the venue

Organised by the Uckfield Model Railway Club.

UCKFIELD CIVIC CENTRE
Civic Approach
Uckfield
East Sussex
TN22 1AE

Saturday 15th October 2022
Sunday 16th October 2022

Open 10am till 5pm both days.

The 2022 Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition will once again be featuring a selection of some of the best quality layouts around. There will be full trade support as well as Demonstration and Society stands. Licensed Restaurant within the Civic Centre will be open throughout the weekend. There will be bacon/sausage baps for early arrivals to purchase - from 9am.

Highlights include April's Railway Modeller's Railway of the Month, Copper Wort in 00 by Peter Goss, making it's third outing. Jeff, Pete and Lynn Day will be bringing Sandford & Banwell, a portrayal of the Strawberry Line in P4, another Railway of the Month, this time from January 2021. We have two layouts making their exhibition debut. Firstly we have Drws-y-Nant, the new 2mm finescale layout from Nigel Ashton, a prototypical portrayal of the GWR passing station in Gwynedd, Wales. Secondly Paul Rhodes will be exhibiting for the first time his small, but exquisitely formed, 00 layout Old Parrock. Finally we have two entries from the Wild Swan Cameo Competition for you to enjoy, finalist Lananta Quay in 3mm finescale and highly commended Hembourne in EM.

Rapido Trains UK – one of the UK’s newest and most exciting manufacturers - will be at the show, displaying all their latest samples and production models of their current and forthcoming projects. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions about their products including their exclusive range of Titfield Thunderbolt models!

Also attending will be Gordon & Maggie Gravett who will be bringing along items already completed for their new French metre gauge Réseau Breton themed layout, and demonstrating some of the techniques being used in its construction.

Of the 17 layouts scheduled to attend there will no less than 13 different scale/gauge combinations represented. Standard, broad and narrow gauge British and American prototypes.

List of layouts expected:

Lower Shalford - 7mm/ft scale 32mm gauge (0)
Southern steam & third rail terminus layout built by the Uckfield Model Railway Club.
Sewel - 7mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge (0-16.5)
Narrow gauge light railway serving a brewery by the Bexhill Model Railway Club.
Cox Lumber Company - 1:48 scale 16.5mm gauge (On30)
North American logging line by Alan Bevan & Maggie Clark, Essex - second exhibition.
Abergynolwyn - 5.5mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge
Early days of the Talyllyn Railway by Tim Tincknell, Wiltshire - RM Apr. 2015.
Blakey Rigg - 1:64 scale 0.884in gauge (S)
Pre Grouping North Yorkshire junction by Paul Greene, West Yorkshire - RM Dec. 2021, BRM Aug. 2022.
Sandford & Banwell - 4mm/ft scale 18.83mm gauge (P4)
Early 1930s GWR Cheddar Valley through station by Jeff, Pete & Lynn Day, Kent - Railway of the Month RM Jan. 2021.
Wantage - 4mm/ft scale 18.83mm gauge (P4)
1920s Wantage Tramway Company terminus by Robin Gay, Bristol.
Hembourne - 4mm/ft scale 18.2mm gauge (EM)
GWR Golden Valley Railway terminus by Paul Ash, Hampshire - Wild Swan Cameo Competition, highly commended.

Copper Wort - 4mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge (00)
Edwardian Burton-on-Trent Brewery system by Peter Goss, York - Railway of the Month RM Apr. 2022.
Old Parrock - 4mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge (00)
East Sussex pre-grouping cameo layout by Paul Rhodes, Oxfordshire - exhibition debut - MRJ 284.

Ettington Verso - 4mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge (00)
Compact Warwickshire station by the Uckfield College Model Railway Club - under construction.

Loctern Quay - 4mm/ft scale 9mm gauge (00-9)
Small inglenook shunting puzzle layout by Michael Campbell, West Sussex - 009 News Competition Winner - RM Sep. 2020, BRM Aug. 2021.
Blackmoor - 4mm/ft scale 9mm gauge (00-9)
Prototypical Lynton & Barnstaple through station by Ian Lampkin, Surrey.

Underpass - 3.5mm/ft scale 16.5mm gauge (H0)
1970s LA compact American switching layout by Robert Strachan, Hampshire - CM Sep. 2022

Lananta Quay - 3mm/ft scale 21mm & 14.2mm gauges (3mm finescale)
GWR 19th Century broad and standard gauge through station by Nick Salzman, Devon - Wild Swan Cameo Competition, finalist - MRJ 283.
Upton Lacey - 1:148 scale 9mm gauge (British N)
1950s/60s ex GWR Cotswold terminus by John Wilshaw, Surrey - RM Oct. 2007.

Drws-y-Nant - 2mm/ft scale 9.42mm gauge (2mm finescale)
Prototypical GWR passing station by Nigel Ashton, Surrey - exhibition debut.

Trade expected at the present time:

C&L Finescale Track Building Systems - suppliers of finescale trackwork and components

Coastal DCC - suppliers of DCC equipment from a very wide range of manufacturers

Compass Model Railways - local model shop with very extensive range of accessories and ready to run rolling stock

Dart Castings - miniature figures and model railway vehicle detailing parts
Golden Arrow Productions - Resin kits for Southern prototypes and suppliers of bowpens for lining

Green Scene - all your scenic needs

Light Railway Stores - featuring products from Planet Industrials and Narrow Planet amongst others
Matthew Cousins GRA - railway artist, known for his views of the Bluebell Railway

Monk's Gate Models - detailed scenic accessories for 7mm scale

NuCast/Branchlines  - range of re-introduced 4mm kits with motors and accessories.

Pete Goss Figures - period figures, unpainted and painted, in 4mm and 7mm scales

Plus Daughters - N gauge specialist stocking British, Continental and American ready to run
Rail-Books - all the latest books and publications
Roger Jones - second hand ready to run

Roxey Mouldings - etched kits in both 4mm and 7mm scales

Severn Models - etched scenic buildings and accessories in 2mm, 4mm and 7mm scales
Squires Model & Craft Tools - wide range of tools, glues and raw materials for the modeller
South Eastern Finecast - 4mm scale locomotive kits and scenic builders sheets

The Wagon Yard - specialist in N and 00 rolling stock
W.M. Collectables - extensive range of second hand ready to run

Public access to the Civic Centre is via either the free High Street car park (Civic Approach), or the Tesco Superstore. The venue is also only three minutes walk away from both the railway and bus stations.

Additional car parking at the station car park - £3 per day at weekend.

More information and layout pictures at http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/exhibition.html

Leysdown (P4) will also be there.

https://www.lloydsbank.com/business/business-accounts/specialist-accounts/treasurers-account.html

It does what it says on the tin - no interest but you are able to administer it online and also make bank transfers using two online "signatories".

Recommended only as a satisfied customer with local Scout District and Group.

13 minutes ago, Morello Cherry said:

Thank you for your hard work in getting the site going again. Apologies if this has been noted but if you search for something on google and you get a link to the forum, when you click on the link you get a dead link and 'can not find that'.

 

So for example if I go on google and put in 'west coast sleeper formations' a whole load of rmweb topics appear, click on the link and I get 

 

Oops - Euston we have a problem.

The page you requested does not exist

Error code: 1S160/2

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/90094-cornish-sleeper-trains-in-the-80s/

 

I would imagine that it is to do with the new hosting.

If you edit the URL by taking out the word "community" the link should work.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/index.php?/topic/90094-cornish-sleeper-trains-in-the-80s/

3 hours ago, Trofimow said:

Hopefully the Peterborough show will be possible later on.

I don't believe the National Festival of Railway Modelling at Peterborough is scheduled to be held going forward.

2 minutes ago, hayfield said:

 

I put my small modern petrol car in the search and although I am coming from outside the North circular it still shows I have to pay £15 ?

The website only shows whether your vehicle is liable to pay the various zonal charges - you need to actually drive in the relevant zone to incur the fee.

Ally Pally is only in the ULEZ zone and so you only need to worry if your car comes up for the ULEZ charge and you drive to the exhibition.

Of course as Mark says, if you drive through other zones and your vehicle is liable for these then those charges will of course apply in addition.

7 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I now believe mine is the Craftsman brass kit. Is that example one and the same ? 

Sorry Rob, don't know the origin but it is definitely etched brass so could be Craftsman

With a heavy application of modeller's licence - Adams T1 0-4-4T No 1 at Leysdown.

The Uckfield Club would like to express our thanks to John and the team for bringing Wadebridge to Padstow to the show this year - it is very much appreciated.

A photographic retrospective of the exhibition has been uploaded to the Club's website.

http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/exhib21nf.html

For those that are interested I have uploaded a photographic retrospective of the show onto the Club's website.

http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/exhib21nf.html

There are also very provisional details about our 37th Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition being held on the 15th & 16th October 2022.

It's a fair way to travel for the day - but I have put it in the corporate diary so maybe a weekend away in Bath beckons!

A very successful day yesterday at the exhibition - it was good to catch up with so many friends.

We do it all again today.

Although slightly out of loading gauge this small locomotive may well make an appearance at Uckfield?

The exhibition weekend has finally arrived - wishing all our exhibitors a safe journey to sunny Sussex.

Wadebridge to Padstow will be making an appearance at the 36th Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition this coming weekend - 16th/17th October 2021

http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk

Another exhibit worth travelling to see is Wadebridge to Padstow - effectively two layouts in one.

Part of John Greenwood's grand plan to model the North Cornwall Railway between Wenfordbridge, Bodmin, Boscarne, Wadebridge and Padstow - all in 2mm/ft finescale. 

Travelling up from Cornwall for the weekend, this will a rare chance to see the layout(s) in the south east.

Padstow is pictured here in its embryonic state when last exhibited back in June 2019.